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"I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself."
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"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
Performance
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
Age
"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
Nature
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
Fortune
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
People
"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
Money
"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
Truth
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
Happiness
"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
Body
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"The triumph can't be had without the struggle."
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"Many of you think about your childhood and particularly about things that did not work out. Forget that and instead think of what you have achieved and what you aspire to do in the times to come.""
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Personal Development
"In whatever we do, we should be investing in ourselves and not our jobs. Everything I have ever pursued has been for the sole goal of who I was becoming in its achievement. I competed and fought because of the man I became. This is the only worthwhile victory. You cannot take the trophies with you."
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"The best of us must sometimes eat our words."
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Personal Development
"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
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Personal Development
"If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much."
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Personal Development
"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."
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Personal Development
"We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced."
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Personal Development
"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
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"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."
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